The United States Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Joint Counter-small UAS Office have announced a new solicitation for low-collateral defeat options in support of Replicator 2 that can scale across the joint force and integrate into existing Counter Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-sUAS) programmes of record.
“DIU continues to work with partners across DoD to accelerate efforts to address UAS threats in both combat environments and highly populated areas,” said DIU Director, Doug Beck. “In addition to providing a critical capability to our forces around the world and helping protect the nation here at home; we are focused on working with industry’s most agile commercial companies to meet the evolving challenges in countering UAS and on scaling those solutions to the level required by the evolving threat.”
“North America faces a variety of non-traditional threats, and key among these is the use of small uncrewed aircraft systems operating near installations and critical infrastructure – addressing these threats is a top priority and essential task,” said Commander, US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, Gen. Gregory M. Guillot. “Partnering with DIU to employ low-collateral defeat capabilities is one example of how we are developing the forward-looking capabilities and policies necessary to ensure a seamless and well-coordinated defensive enterprise.”
The solicitation is open for industry submissions until May 19, 2025. Solution providers should expect to participate in shared testing events with other vendors, operators and government developers from each service and be prepared to rapidly scale and integrate into service.
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Image: Gen. Gregory Guillot, Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and US Northern Command hosted distinguished visitors at Falcon Peak on Fort Carson, Colorado in October 2024. (US Department of Defense photos by Josh Armstrong)
